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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Savings account holders

Article R6341-20

The holder of a savings passbook is exempt from the reimbursement provided for in article R. 6341-19 when the institution holding the savings passbook has refused to issue the loan provided for in the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Tax on offshore wind turbines

Article 1519 B

…the tax year. It is not due the year the unit is commissioned.The annual rate of the tax is set at €19,405 per megawatt installed. This amount is revalued each year in line with the forecast rate, ass…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-18

…emergencies, under conditions determined by decree; 3° In the cases provided for in Article L. 3121-19.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Medical biology

Article L6433-1

…are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in the wording resulting respectively from Law no. 2023-379 of 19 May 2023 on improving access to care by trusting healthcare professionals and Law no. 2016-41 of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Prisoners under the age of twenty-one

Article D521

In accordance with the dispositions de l'article D. 216-19 du code pénitentiaire, les personnes détenues prévenus majeurs âgés de moins de vingt et un ans participent à des activités d'enseignement, d…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Final provisions

Article L614-25

French nationals may claim the application for their benefit, in France, of the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on 20 March 1883,…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Safety

Article L463-1

The provisions of the article mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, in the wording indica…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-2

The public prosecutor draws up an annual report on the state of enforcement of sentences and the time taken to enforce them, which includes, in particular, a report drawn up by the departmental direct…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Access to non-identifying data and the identity of the third-party donor

Article L2143-1

For the purposes of this Chapter, the notion of third-party donor means the person whose gametes have been collected or retrieved pursuant to Chapter IV of Title IV of Book II of Part One of this Code…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Criminal provisions.

Article L2446-2

I.-Chapters II and III of Title II of Book II are applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in this chapter. II -Article L. 2222-2 is applicable in the v…

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